Simviation Forum - Air Refueling Gone Wrong

Oct 28^th, 2012 at 8:19pm

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnoF1AJXokM&feature=plcp

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A NATO E-3 Sentry almost hit the tail of the tanker and its flying boom during air-to-air refueling operations. Not only the close proximity of the two large planes was dangerous, but also the evasive maneuver the pilot performs to avoid collision: the AWACS (airborne early warning and control plane) pulls several negative G-forces to gain quick separation from the refueler.

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Reply #1 - Oct 28^th, 2012 at 8:30pm

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I saw this on the CombatAce forums the other day..dang near had to change MY shorts after seeing that!

‎"At that time [1909] the chief engineer was almost always the chief test pilot as well. That had the fortunate result of eliminating poor engineering early in aviation."- Igor Sikorsky

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Reply #2 - Oct 31^st, 2012 at 1:33pm

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Dziqns wrote on Oct 28^th, 2012 at 8:19pm:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnoF1AJXokM&feature=plcp

So Insane Cheesy

A NATO E-3 Sentry almost hit the tail of the tanker and its flying boom during air-to-air refueling operations. Not only the close proximity of the two large planes was dangerous, but also the evasive maneuver the pilot performs to avoid collision: the AWACS (airborne early warning and control plane) pulls several negative G-forces to gain quick separation from the refueler.

That's not close for AAR. The only dangerous situation was the E-3 going up. The recovery manouvre was entiely correct, and although it looks very agressive, it probably wouldn't have been all that much into "negative g". All a bit of excitement over a video. All that happened: boom broke. Handling pilot on E-3 went up (no-no). Either he or his other pilot promptly and safely corrected.

May have been a surprise to anyone standing down the back though...

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Reply #3 - Dec 2^nd, 2012 at 11:29pm

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Dziqns wrote on Oct 28^th, 2012 at 8:19pm:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnoF1AJXokM&feature=plcp

So Insane Cheesy

A NATO E-3 Sentry almost hit the tail of the tanker and its flying boom during air-to-air refueling operations. Not only the close proximity of the two large planes was dangerous, but also the evasive maneuver the pilot performs to avoid collision: the AWACS (airborne early warning and control plane) pulls several negative G-forces to gain quick separation from the refueler.

We were watching that at work, and all we could think of was "The E-3 Pilot needs better training" he almost flew the plane in to Co Pilots Window first, before he actually made contact, then you could hear the boom stressing as he came up into boom nearly breaking it off.

Just seemed like a bunch of over correcting on the E-3 Part, nearly resulting in an accident.

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